Part of a larger project devoted to the extraordinary – and imperiled – Joshua tree of the Mojave Desert, these photographs express a sense of wonder for the iconic plants that dot the high desert of Southern California. Joshua tree, which often live more than 100 years, were recently placed on the Endangered Species List by California lawmakers, who worry about the treat to the treed due to climae change generally and rising temperatures in particular. While these strange trees are visually arresting, they also represent a unique form of relational existence in their connection to the yucca moth, which pollinates the trees, and in turn, the moth’s caterpillars survive by eating the seeds of the Joshua tree. In this way, tree and moth coexist, and have done so for millions of years. I’ve been spending more and more time in the desert near these trees, wondering how to intuit the rhythms of an entity that knows the propulsions of time and existence in profoundly other, entirely nonhuman ways. What does this look like? Is it color and vibration? And what does it sound like in language, these rhythms beyond the “now”? Can we come to sense other ways of being if we attend more carefully to these entities?